Forgotten Lotto ticket brings fortune to family on brink of foreclosure

Ricardo Cerezo and his family have been going through a hard time in the last couple of years. Last year, their 14-year-old daughter, Savannah, passed away from a sudden illness. On Feb. 12, the couple, who have three children, stood before a judge in a …Read More

• Police: Suspect used sweet talk to fleece lonely women, business ‘customers’

  At 6-foot-5 and 300 pounds, David Ray Wooten has been dubbed Lothario the Large. In past decades, Wooten was a pro at seducing lonely elderly women out of their savings and valuables. But most recently, he ran a phony business in northwest suburban Park Ridge, police say. Wooten, 63, allegedly bilked his “customers” out of three cars, works of art and sports memorabilia including a 1907 Chicago Cubs World Series poster and an autographed Dan Marino football, police say. He may have as many as 100 victims in the Midwest alone, authorities say.

• Laurie Dann Rampage, 25 years later

  It’s been 25 years since Phil Andrew was shot by Laurie Dann. Then a 20-year-old college student, he was taken hostage on May 20, 1988 by Dann after she went on a rampage in the North Shore, killing a boy and wounding others. It’s a day that has impacted and influenced his life. There is no official ceremony marking the quarter century that’s passed since Dann, 30, terrorized the community.

• Woman, 87, suing Donald Trump takes stand

  Donald Trump accused her of playing the “age card.” But 87-year-old Jackie Goldberg demonstrated an uncanny recollection of detail that Trump himself couldn’t match when she took the stand in Chicago’s federal court Friday afternoon. Goldberg is suing the real estate magnate for allegedly using a bait-and-switch scam to sell her two hotel condo units at the Trump Tower in 2006.